bourrache
\bu.ʁaʃ\
The verdict
“bourrache” is uncommon French (frequency #96,692 among 227,490 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #96,692
- frequency rank, French
- 227,490
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Nom usuel donné aux plantes herbacées, vivaces du genre Borago, de la famille des Boraginaceae (Boraginacées).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bourrache |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bu.ʁaʃ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #96,692 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “bourrache” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
bourrache is uncommon French at frequency #96,692 among 227,490 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \bu.ʁaʃ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for bourrache, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is bourrache, spelled B-O-U-R-R-A-C-H-E.
Definition
- 1Nom usuel donné aux plantes herbacées, vivaces du genre Borago, de la famille des Boraginaceae (Boraginacées).
- 2Bourrache officinale (Borago officinalis), plante condimentaire et médicinale employée comme sudorifique et diurétique.
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Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “bourrache”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is B-O-U-R-R-A-C-H-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \bu.ʁaʃ\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.